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To mitigate an impact of the ongoing electricity crisis in Ukraine, we propose establishing an energy situation room, empowering municipalities, and using market mechanisms to allocate donor support for rapid deployment of technical solutions.

We investigate several contradictions seen in the literature about the viability of electricity markets at high penetrations of wind and solar. Price structure of many zero- and high-price hours is a symptom of capacity expansion models using inelastic demand.

This article details contents of the “Energy Systems Modeling” course, which sought to introduce graduate-level students to operations research, energy economics, and system modeling.